Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carl August Sandburg, 81-year-old poet of the American dream and of Lincoln's greatness, raised the political ploy into a true and moving memorial service. In 19 spellbinding minutes that brought tears even to the eyes of Dixie Senators, Sandburg chiseled his finest tribute to the Lincoln "invisibly there, today, tomorrow and for a long time yet to come in the hearts of lovers of liberty...
...criticism is much easier than it looks: reject stories written by those who are not your friends, particularly unwashed people; accept stories containing delectable bons mots in foreign languages, the more exotic the better. How to pick poetry is a more complex problem: obey your nose and judge the poet on the basis of his fragrance...
...senility they saw on The Advocate. And to say that The Editor is on probation and that Audience is a junior Phi Beta Kappa is to play with words. Edmunds says that because Identity is published by an offset process, the success of the printing job depends on the poet's typewriter; if he studied printing, and that would be a very good place for The Advocate to start, he would learn that the poems of Identity are not typed by each poet's own machine, but rather, by the people who put out the sheet. He blames the CRIMSON...
...20th century morality play by Poet Archibald MacLeish, expressing modern man's torment in terms of the Book of Job. Despite some flatness in both poetry and drama, and a rather hollow ending, it makes for an arresting evening in the theater...
...Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill's tale of a boozing innkeeper and his crumbling illusions is still the season's best drama. With Eric Portman, Kim Stanley, Helen Hayes...